Adams's departure means City are now looking for a seventh manager in five years. Ask yourself, is it the selected or the selector?

For the (not so) Saint Michael the writing was on the wall for some time.

One point from 18, a Cup exit against a spirited lower-league club was really only the final nail in an aspiration coffin being tossed off the gang-plank arresting Operation Sinking Ship.

Lower attendances, income, apathy and dire football are not a potent, successful mix.

Should it have come to this?

A season of promise, little over four months old, Adams had to raise both himself, his self created, mid-table to lower-table located team, and, there, I believe lay the problem: management style and 'motivation.'

What turned the season looking, even to very recently, from a possible contention year into a boiling cauldron of bile, negativity and anti chants?

Adams was the ex-Sky Blue player who could have complemented the new senior management structure of 'The Three.'

But he made some wrong decisions after the undermining sale of the club's prime asset to those other Blues up the A45.

Anybody denying this effect is, sadly, not looking at the goals-for column for both clubs, but it is equally true that what money was spent was not done wisely.

The rot now really sets in after his acquisitions failed to gel, perform and despite a fine defensive record the foundations of a reasonable performance were resting on a rocky shore, tossed by waves of doubt: a temperamental Adams psyche.

It seems we'd all, mostly, bought the Operation Premiership hope / hype and now it was us expecting 'instant success'.

A sublime transfer of boardroom expectation to the fans is so ironic to be past that winning post and on into the ridiculous.

It's a very clever attention mover from the real causes of the problem.

Focusing our attention, of the pressure of consistent under-achievement on to the great-white-hope redeemer.

Don't look now folks but we've all become Mike McGinnity, haven't we? Well, not quite.

And there's good reason for that.

'The Three' give us a little of the something we've missed over in 10 seasons or so, some feel-good factor, boardroom light and direction, a bit of confidence, swagger, sales patois and yes - although like a magic trick - apparently money and this is where the problems really began.

What we now need is nerve before investing in stability.

That means not 'an appointment' but a recruitment. Lets do this properly.

Rather than bring in a past failure or look to see 'who's available' due to recent other failures elsewhere, lets advertise, see who has the spirit, is achieving and wants the job for more reasons than they actually need one.

Then, and only then, may we actually get a manager with a new direction and impetus who can motivate what is actually quite a good squad into a title chasing one who can live up to the ambition and raised expectation of 'Operation Premiership.'